Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇺🇸 The only poll of any real significance is the one that determines the group of presidential electors for the Electoral College, everything else is speculation.
#Poll #Polls #ElectoralCollege #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates
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🔴 📖 How does reading non-fiction books help you to understand the world around you?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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🔴 ❓ 📚 I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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🔴 🇩🇰 Denmark generates a larger share of its electricity from wind than any other country
"Data from the Energy Institute shows that wind power accounts for over a quarter of Denmark’s total primary energy consumption — the largest figure globally."
It is great to have #QOTO back. Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
It is great to have #QOTO back.
Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
⭐ 🇺🇸 US President or American Caesar?
"The clamour about an American Caesar hit a kind of crescendo during the Jacksonian era of the 1830s. The heirs of the Federalists saw the military hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson as an American Bonaparte, whose claim to represent the true voice of the American people illustrated the worst excesses of democratic politics."
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/us-president-or-american-caesar
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #JuliusCaesar #Caesar
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⭐ Investment in generative AI has surged recently
"In 2023, funding for generative AI soared to $22.4 billion, nearly nine times more than in 2022 and about 25 times the amount from 2019. This surge occurred despite overall investment in AI declining since its 2021 peak."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/investment-in-generative-ai-has-surged-recently
🔴 🇨🇱 **Chile produced 9.4% of its primary energy from solar in 2023 — the highest in any country that year**
"_Much of Chile's solar energy is captured in the Atacama Desert. This region, in Northern Chile, receives the highest level of sunlight exposure in the world and is home to Latin America’s first solar thermal plant._"
🔴 🇪🇸 **Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis**
"_By integrating genetic, archaeological, and historical data, we unveil the presence of an endogamous and consanguineous community in Northern Iberia. Despite centuries of turbulent regional history, this community experienced limited external gene flow. Our findings indicate that this community remained relatively isolated for at least five centuries._"
Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela et al., Five centuries of consanguinity, isolation, health, and conflict in Las Gobas: A Northern Medieval Iberian necropolis. Sci. Adv.10, eadp8625 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8625.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #DNA #Palaeogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Iberia #Medieval #Medievodons #Spain #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @medievodons
🔴 **Temperature-related mortality burden and projected change in 1368 European regions: a modelling study**
"_By 2100, based on our modelling, heat-related deaths in Europe could increase to more than 234 455 deaths annually in the worst scenario, compared with around 43 729 deaths for the current scenario (1991–2020), potentially shifting the mortality peak from cold to warm seasons in certain regions._"
🔗 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00179-8/fulltext
#TheLancet #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Science #PublicHealth #Health #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @climatechange
🔴 🗺️ **Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period**
"_Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD_"
#Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map
#Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Tribes_in_the_Roman_Imperial_Period.png
🔴 🇩🇪 🎥 **Why an AfD Politician Is Accused of 'Whitewashing' Nazi Crimes ¦ Germany's Enemy Within ¦ FRONTLINE**
"_Björn Höcke, of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on the brink of a potential state election victory. He has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust and been fined for using a Nazi slogan._"
#Video length: four minutes and fifty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvgCMPPfkg
#AfD #Germany #Europe #Nazi #Politics #History #PBS #Frontline
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **"Norway" 1950 Scandinavia People & Industry Travelogue Film Oslo, Bergen**
"_Dudley Pictures Corporation presents, “This World of Ours: Norway” (1950) which is a black-and-white made for television short travelog film about the country of Norway. Captured by cinematographer Edwin E. Olsen, the film features footage of Norway’s rugged beauty from the fjords to valleys as well as scenes from the bustling cities of Oslo and Bergen._"
#Video length: nine minutes and three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTs4h5DTso
#Europe #Scandinavia #Nordic #Norway #Oslo #Bergen #Travel #Travelogue #Travelog #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline**
"_Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people._"
#Video length: three hours and thirteen minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npAA
#Viking #Vikings #Europe #Scandinavia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Timeline #Documentary @histodon @histodons
🔴 **A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America**
"_The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses._"
Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10339
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #HIstodons #Confederacy #Slavery #Netherlands #Dutch #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: De Ingenieur, 8 1893, nr. 13 (via Delpher.nl), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_T._Liernur.jpg
🔴 **Climate change does not affect all areas of the globe uniformly**
"_In 2023, the global average temperature anomaly was 0.6°C above the 1991–2020 average. However, these anomalies vary by region. In countries such as Syria and Turkey, the average annual surface air temperature in 2023 was around 1.2°C above the 1991–2020 average, compared to approximately 0.3°C in Australia._"
#Data #DataViz #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange
🔴 🇺🇸 **Capitalization in the constitution?**
"_It appears to me most of the nouns, if not all, are capitalized. For example, in the preamble, I only find "defence" is not capitalized, all the other nouns are capitalized._"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65117
#Language #Linguistics #Orthography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Constitution @linguistics
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Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
